Google Cloud Datastore Client for Java

Java idiomatic client for Cloud Datastore.

• Product Documentation
• Client Library Documentation

Quickstart

If you are using Maven with BOM, add this to your pom.xml file:

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
      <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
      <version>26.1.2</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-cloud-datastore</artifactId>
  </dependency>

If you are using Maven without BOM, add this to your dependencies:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>google-cloud-datastore</artifactId>
  <version>2.11.4</version>
</dependency>

If you are using Gradle 5.x or later, add this to your dependencies:

implementation platform('com.google.cloud:libraries-bom:26.1.2')

implementation 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-datastore'

If you are using Gradle without BOM, add this to your dependencies:

implementation 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-datastore:2.11.4'

If you are using SBT, add this to your dependencies:

libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-datastore" % "2.11.4"

Authentication

See the Authentication section in the base directory's README.

Authorization

The client application making API calls must be granted authorization scopes required for the desired Cloud Datastore APIs, and the authenticated principal must have the IAM role(s) required to access GCP resources using the Cloud Datastore API calls.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You will need a Google Cloud Platform Console project with the Cloud Datastore API enabled.

Follow these instructions to get your project set up. You will also need to set up the local development environment by installing the Google Cloud SDK and running the following commands in command line: gcloud auth login and gcloud config set project [YOUR PROJECT ID].

Installation and setup

You'll need to obtain the google-cloud-datastore library. See the Quickstart section to add google-cloud-datastore as a dependency in your code.

About Cloud Datastore

Cloud Datastore is a fully managed, schemaless database for storing non-relational data. Cloud Datastore automatically scales with your users and supports ACID transactions, high availability of reads and writes, strong consistency for reads and ancestor queries, and eventual consistency for all other queries.

See the Cloud Datastore client library docs to learn how to use this Cloud Datastore Client Library.

See the [Google Cloud Datastore docs][cloud-datastore-activation] for more details on how to activate Cloud Datastore for your project.

See the [Datastore client library docs][datastore-client-lib-docs] to learn how to interact with the Cloud Datastore using this Client Library.

Creating an authorized service object

To make authenticated requests to Google Cloud Datastore, you must create a service object with credentials. You can then make API calls by calling methods on the Datastore service object. The simplest way to authenticate is to use Application Default Credentials. These credentials are automatically inferred from your environment, so you only need the following code to create your service object:

import com.google.cloud.datastore.Datastore;
import com.google.cloud.datastore.DatastoreOptions;

Datastore datastore = DatastoreOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();

For other authentication options, see the Authentication page.

Storing data

Objects in Datastore are known as entities. Entities are grouped by "kind" and have keys for easy access. In this code snippet, we will create a new entity representing a person and store that data by the person's email. First, add the following imports at the top of your file:

import com.google.cloud.datastore.Entity;
import com.google.cloud.datastore.Key;
import com.google.cloud.datastore.KeyFactory;

Then add the following code to put an entity in Datastore.

KeyFactory keyFactory = datastore.newKeyFactory().setKind("Person");
Key key = keyFactory.newKey("john.doe@gmail.com");
Entity entity = Entity.newBuilder(key)
    .set("name", "John Doe")
    .set("age", 51)
    .set("favorite_food", "pizza")
    .build();
datastore.put(entity);

Later, if you want to get this entity back, add the following to your code:

Entity johnEntity = datastore.get(key);

Running a query

In addition to retrieving entities by their keys, you can perform queries to retrieve entities by the values of their properties. A typical query includes an entity kind, filters to select entities with matching values, and sort orders to sequence the results. google-cloud-datastore supports two types of queries: StructuredQuery (that allows you to construct query elements) and GqlQuery (which operates using GQL syntax) in string format. In this tutorial, we will use a simple StructuredQuery.

Suppose that you've added more people to Datastore, and now you want to find all people whose favorite food is pizza. Import the following:

import com.google.cloud.datastore.Query;
import com.google.cloud.datastore.QueryResults;
import com.google.cloud.datastore.StructuredQuery;
import com.google.cloud.datastore.StructuredQuery.PropertyFilter;

Then add the following code to your program:

Query<Entity> query = Query.newEntityQueryBuilder()
    .setKind("Person")
    .setFilter(PropertyFilter.eq("favorite_food", "pizza"))
    .build();
QueryResults<Entity> results = datastore.run(query);
while (results.hasNext()) {
  Entity currentEntity = results.next();
  System.out.println(currentEntity.getString("name") + ", you're invited to a pizza party!");
}

Cloud Datastore relies on indexing to run queries. Indexing is turned on by default for most types of properties. To read more about indexing, see the Cloud Datastore Index Configuration documentation.

Updating data

Another thing you'll probably want to do is update your data. The following snippet shows how to update a Datastore entity if it exists.

KeyFactory keyFactory = datastore.newKeyFactory().setKind("keyKind");
Key key = keyFactory.newKey("keyName");
Entity entity = datastore.get(key);
if (entity != null) {
  System.out.println("Updating access_time for " + entity.getString("name"));
  entity = Entity.newBuilder(entity)
      .set("access_time", DateTime.now())
      .build();
  datastore.update(entity);
}

The complete source code can be found at UpdateEntity.java.

Complete source code

In AddEntitiesAndRunQuery.java we put together all the code to store data and run queries into one program. The program assumes that you are running on Compute Engine or from your own desktop. To run the example on App Engine, simply move the code from the main method to your application's servlet class and change the print statements to display on your webpage.

Testing

This library has tools to help write tests for code that uses the Datastore.

See TESTING.md to read more about testing.

Example Applications

• Bookshelf - An App Engine app that manages a virtual bookshelf.
  • This app uses google-cloud to interface with Cloud Datastore and Cloud Storage. It also uses Cloud SQL, another Google Cloud Platform service.
• Flexible Environment/Datastore example - A simple app that uses Cloud Datastore to list the last 10 IP addresses that visited your site.
• SparkDemo - An example of using google-cloud-datastore from within the SparkJava and App Engine Flexible Environment frameworks.
  • Read about how it works on the example's README page.

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory.

Sample	Source Code	Try it
Native Image Datastore Sample	source code
Quickstart Sample	source code
Task List	source code

Troubleshooting

To get help, follow the instructions in the shared Troubleshooting document.

Supported Java Versions

Java 8 or above is required for using this client.

Google's Java client libraries, Google Cloud Client Libraries and Google Cloud API Libraries, follow the Oracle Java SE support roadmap (see the Oracle Java SE Product Releases section).

For new development

In general, new feature development occurs with support for the lowest Java LTS version covered by Oracle's Premier Support (which typically lasts 5 years from initial General Availability). If the minimum required JVM for a given library is changed, it is accompanied by a semver major release.

Java 11 and (in September 2021) Java 17 are the best choices for new development.

Keeping production systems current

Google tests its client libraries with all current LTS versions covered by Oracle's Extended Support (which typically lasts 8 years from initial General Availability).

Legacy support

Google's client libraries support legacy versions of Java runtimes with long term stable libraries that don't receive feature updates on a best efforts basis as it may not be possible to backport all patches.

Google provides updates on a best efforts basis to apps that continue to use Java 7, though apps might need to upgrade to current versions of the library that supports their JVM.

Where to find specific information

The latest versions and the supported Java versions are identified on the individual GitHub repository github.com/GoogleAPIs/java-SERVICENAME and on google-cloud-java.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

Contributing

Contributions to this library are always welcome and highly encouraged.

See CONTRIBUTING for more information how to get started.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. See Code of Conduct for more information.

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE for more information.

CI Status

Java Version	Status
Java 8
Java 8 OSX
Java 8 Windows
Java 11

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